Designing human-machine interfaces to match the user's mental models

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-18

  Fuchs Frohnhofen, P ^a   Hartmann, E A ^a   Brandt, D ^a   Weydandt, D ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human centred design; Human machine interface; Systems design

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COGNITIVE COMPATIBILITY; HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN; HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACES; USER MENTAL MODEL;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0029776520     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0661(95)00201-2     Document Type: Article

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